One of my favorite composers is Claude Debussy.
Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJsyMmC76aM
Achille-Claude Debussy was born into a poor family on August 22, 1862, in France. His obvious gift at the piano sent him to the Paris Conservatory at age 11. At age 22, he won the Prix de Rome, which financed two years of further musical study in the Italian capital. After the turn of the century, Debussy established himself as the leading figure of French music. During World War I, while Paris was being bombed by the German air force, he succumbed to colon cancer at the age of 55, on March 25, 1918.
American Composers:
Aaron Copland(/ˌærən ˈkoʊplənd/; [1][2] November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, in his later years he was often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers" and is best known to the public for the works he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s in a deliberately accessible style often referred to as "populist" and which the composer labeled his "vernacular" style. [3] Works in this vein include the ballets Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid and Rodeo, his Fanfare for the Common Man and Third Symphony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJYVH_kZkOk
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864 ), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter primarily known for his parlor and minstrel music. Foster wrote over 200 songs; among his best-known are "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer". Many of his compositions remain popular more than 150 years after he wrote them. Although he wrote all of those famous compositions, his songs made him little money, due to other people publishing it, which didn't pay Foster a lot of money, and he became impoverished in the last three years of his life, and succumbed at the age of 37 after getting injuries from falling against the washbasin of his room.